Month: March 2010

Northern Spring begins on Saturday, March 20th. To celebrate the occasion, Nature is putting on an equinox sky show.

The Moon and the Pleiades are having a close encounter of rare beauty.

The Pleiades are a cluster of young stars some 440 light years from Earth. They formed from a collapsing cloud of interstellar gas about 100 million years ago. By the standards of astronomy, that’s really young. The Earth under your feet is almost 50 times older. Dinosaurs were roaming our planet long before the Pleiades popped into being.

Researchers have created a “quantum state” in the largest object yet.